The New Street Fighter Movie Posters Are Here and They Are Perfect

John Summers • Contributor

Dec 13, 2025 5:00 PM EST

I did not think I would be saying this in the year of our lord 2025, but here we are, the Street Fighter movie keeps absolutely nailing it.

After that trailer dropped and hit me with pure 90s energy straight to the face, I figured, okay, maybe they peaked early. Maybe the posters would be generic floating heads, maybe the vibe would fall apart once we got a closer look.

Nope. Not even a little.

These character posters are unhinged in exactly the right way. They are loud, stylized, a little ridiculous, and unapologetically game accurate. Chun-Li looks like she walked straight out of a character select screen. Blanka is pure chaos, in the best possible sense, and yes, Jason Momoa looks like he is having the absolute time of his life under all that green rage. Balrog looks like Balrog, not a "reimagined gritty boxer," just a terrifying wall of fists who absolutely wants to punch you through a brick wall.

That is the thing that keeps impressing me here. This movie is not embarrassed by Street Fighter. It is leaning into it. Hard. The costumes are bold. The poses are theatrical. The designs feel like they were approved by people who actually played the games instead of people who skimmed a Wikipedia page and said "make it more grounded."

This is not realism. This is reverence.

Street Fighter has always been campy, colorful, international, and just slightly unhinged. Trying to sand that down is how you end up with something forgettable. What this movie seems to understand is that accuracy does not mean boring. Accuracy means embracing the insanity and turning it into spectacle.

Enjoy these posters: